One of the magical innovations of the Web 2.0 era was when the bigger social platforms opened their doors to third-party app developers. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter widely touted ,and profited from, the concept of allowing consumers to plug their social graph into other applications. We saw the meteoric rise of games, apps and business tools that leverage the ability to quickly insert… Read More

Donald Trump edges Ben Carson, 23%-18%, atop Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll of the Republican presidential field. Scott Walker, who led in May survey with 17%, falls into tie for 3rd with Ted Cruz at 8% support; Rand Paul, who tied for 2nd in May poll drops to 4% from 10% Trump and Carson "both finding traction because they don't seem like politicians and there's a strong demand for that right now," said J. Ann Selzer, president of West Des Moines-based Selzer & Co., which

(John Hinderaker) Today, the St. Paul Black Lives Matter organization marched on the State Fair to protest alleged brutality by the St. Paul police department. The march was long-awaited and something like 900 participants had been expected, but nowhere near that many turned out. The protesters closed down streets and highways on their way to the fair. The main entrance to the fair on Snelling Avenue was closed down, which must have

DALLAS (AP) - Siddharth Jaganath wanted to return to India after earning his master's degree at Texas' Southern Methodist University. Instead, he built a new life in the U.S. over a decade, becoming a manager at a communications technology company and starting a family in the Dallas suburb of Plano.

Elon Musk has warned us about robots taking over. He's even donated money to make sure that it doesn't happen. However, it sure does seem like Tesla relies on robots quite a bit, even if they're not being primed to turn the company into Skynet. At one point this year Musk referred to AI in robots as "summoning the demons." He still says it's inevitable… Read More

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican presidential candidate, said in New Hampshire that as president he would have FedEx founder Fred Smith "come work for the government for three months" to show Immigration and Customs Enforcement how to track immigrants, according to CNN. "We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in and then when your time is up," Christie said. "However long your visa is, then we go get you and tap you on the shoulder and say, 'Excuse me,

Excerpts of recent editorials of statewide and national interest from New England newspapers:

The Providence Journal (R.I.), Aug. 23, 2015

President Obama's Iran nuclear deal, even in the outline initially revealed to the American people, seemed to substitute appeasement for firmness against an enemy that supports terrorism while vowing to ...